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| Cover Songs 2 by Fussbett 01/11/2003, 5:22pm PST | ||||
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| In honour of ToutSuite and Alternate 789 there are TWO Pixies songs in this round-up. I aim to please.
DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - Come to Daddy After dropping their groundbreaking and "mathcore/jazzcore" genre-inventing album Calculating Infinity, DEP then lost their singer. Who stepped up to fill in the gap for one EP? Mike Fucking Patton, aka the hardcore Pavarotti. If you were of any value at all, you would already own (or have stolen) the DEP/Patton collaboration EP "Irony is a Dead Scene", but since you're timid and we're on the subject of covers, grab Come to Daddy as it's an accessible primer. If anything, I'd fault it for being too close to the original. Still, great to hear the dense and messy work of Apex Twin captured by human musicians. WEEZER - Velouria The Pixies meet Weezer. Since post-Pinkerton Weezer has completely (intentionally?) forgotten how to write songs, it's nice that they can apply their considerable recording talent to an already great song which is impossible to fuck up. LEMONHEADS - Skulls "The corpses all hang headless and limp / bodies with no surprises / and the blood drains down like devil's rain / we'll bathe tonight"... You'll find the MP3 credited to the Lemonheads, but it's just Evan Dando and an acoustic guitar, gently lulling you to sleep with the Misfits' tales of ritualistically murdering little girls. THE HELLACOPTERS - Bullet The Misfits song about JFK. These Swedes (lead by the ex-drummer of Entombed turned guitar/singer (he Dave Grohl'ed)) stick to the rule book and turn in a slightly tighter version of the punk classic. Glen Danzig's Elvis Morrison vocals replaced with lacklustre clipped distortion. REFUSED - Bullet The Swedish bands love this song. The Refused absolutely BLOW AWAY the versions by both the 'Copters and the Misfits. It's faster, tighter, smarter, and more passionate. Plus, you can still detect Dennis' Swedish accent which gives it a cosmopolitan flare, especially when screaming "Texas is the reason / that the president's dead / you gotta suck suck, Jackie, suck." PITCHSHIFTER - Making Plans for Nigel From the same sessions that brought us the BRILLIANT www.pitchshifter.com album (where techno finally met metal, and the two genres got along), this track is quick and to the point, and is very much Pitchshifter. MELT BANANA - We Will Rock You Another party favourite, you should put this on without a preface, and let the laughs flow. Tiny Japanese women, delivering those ridiculous lyrics in a stilted Jap accent, overtop that famous drum beat -- this time performed by a cold drum machine. Of course, noise plays a bigger and bigger factor as time goes on. THE GET UP KIDS - Alec Eiffel Even people who dislike emo shouldn't stay away from this Pixies song. I think it's BETTER than the original. What do you think of that? The Get Up Kids do a killer job with the ended and the way they blended the two parts together with the keyboard riff. This is why I prefer it. It all goes by so quick, I usually loop it a couple times. |
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Cover Songs 2 by 01/11/2003, 5:22pm PST  Re: Cover Songs 2 by 01/11/2003, 6:58pm PST Re: Cover Songs / 2 recommendations by 01/11/2003, 9:49pm PST |
